Book I, Chapter III, Of the Rent of Land, Section IX, p. 214
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.”
Source: The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 77.
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António Guterres
(1949) Secretary-General of the United Nations
Said in a visit to Nigeria in 2019. Recorded in an Instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzxt5h-nYhT/ on UN Environment
Eric Hoffer
(1898–1983) American philosopher
Israel's Peculiar Position (1968)
Context: Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews.
They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
April 17, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“Rich people seldom run amok; They hire somebody to do that for them.”
Steve Perry
(1947) American writer
Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 5
